On Monday 20 June 2016 19:37:57 Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > On Tue, Jun 21, 2016 at 01:29:41AM +0800, Anthony Wong wrote: > > On 20 June 2016 at 18:20, Pali Rohár <pali.rohar@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > On Monday 20 June 2016 03:16:36 Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > > > On Sun, Jun 19, 2016 at 01:43:46AM +0200, Pali Roh??r wrote: > > > > > I do not understand it... Why Canonical is hidden and don't > > > > > communicate with rest of world? Otherwise touchpads could > > > > > work out-of-box on non Ubuntu systems too with mainline > > > > > kernel. > > > > > > It must be really frustrating for Ben and other people (me too) > > > who in last months working on ALPS patches to support that > > > touchpad as we know that Canonical already had some working code > > > for that touchpad... > > > > Hi Pali, > > > > The fix in the DKMS package you referenced was not written by > > Canonical but by ALPS, as it came from them I think it is > > reasonable they send it to upstream, isn't it? As you can see the > > patch is non-trivial. > > > > After we got the patch from ALPS, we had follow-up conversation a > > few times with our contacts at Taiwan and asked if they would > > upstream it, but unfortunately to no avail. I am as desperate as > > you if the fix cannot land in mainline, which means many Linux > > users will not benefit from it. We also had opened this bug [1] > > for this particular issue, there is nothing to hide. If there is > > any code written by us, we happily submit them upstream. > > Why couldn't you guys send it upstream yourselves? For ALPS 73 03 28 touchpad it is probably too late now, see: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.input/49651 > > [1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1571530 > > > > > On Monday 20 June 2016 03:16:36 Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > > > Because Canonical doesn't collaborate with the upstream > > > > community in any meaninful way. They've been a bad player > > > > since day 1 and will always be. > > > > This reminded me of this old thread [2]. How hard is it to run this > > command in your kernel git tree? > > > > $ git log --pretty=oneline --author=canonical > > > > [2] https://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-bluetooth/msg47286.html > > > > Thanks, > > Anthony -- Pali Rohár pali.rohar@xxxxxxxxx
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